The
news of the latest casualties from trump’s
war came while he was
chillin’ at the FIFA World Cup final. He
promised retaliation.
Since trump’s attack on Iran on February 28,
his undeclared,
non-approved war by Congress has cost an
estimated $2 billion per
day. There have been thousands of casualties
between the two
countries, but it was the youthful face of
19-year-old Isabella
Gonzales that struck an ironic chord for me.
Pvt.
Gonzales was barely out of high school. I
doubt that she fully
understood what it meant to volunteer in an
imperialist military.
It’s questionable if she could make the
connection between her
sacrifice and the plight of people of her
ancestry being targeted by
the same government that put her in harm’s
way. She was just a kid,
a kid captivated by the empty promises of
the U.S. military.
The
trump regime has been selling wolf tickets
for almost six months now,
boasting of the obliteration of Iran’s
military capabilities. Iran
seems to be holding its own, between
conducting its own airstrikes on
U.S. allies’ bases and controlling the
Strait of Hormuz. While
trump pursues his vanity projects, the
cost-of-living soars and U.S.
allies are backing away from a dangerous,
erratic man.
The
regime is at war at home and abroad, and
it’s time to rein in the
war criminals who are being allowed to run
this country into the
ground. Seventeen U.S. service members have
been killed in the war
with Iran. In 2026, at least 30 people have
died in confrontations
with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE). These deaths are
collateral damage in trump’s quest to rule
the world and assert
himself as the fascist leader he openly
aspires to be.
Lorenzo
Salgado Araujo was driving to work with his
brother and two other
passengers in Houston when ICE agents forced
him to pull over, then
fired a fatal shot through the window. Less
than a week later, Joan
Sebastián Guerrero was murdered at an
intersection in Biddeford,
Maine. The deaths of Gonzales, Araujo, and
Guerrero underscored an
Instagram post that stated the obvious:
people of Hispanic descent
can die for this country but will never be
accepted as citizens.
We
can expect more deadly conflicts with ICE as
the midterm elections
get closer. We should prepare for ICE at
polling sites. We should
anticipate ICE prowling targeted areas to
make their quota for the
privately-run concentration centers.
This
is not just about the erasure of Brown
people. Indigenous people,
people of African descent, and even people
of Asian descent have been
in the crosshairs of Aryan barbarism. The
anti-war sentiment must be
ramped up as part of the struggle for
democracy. Understanding our
shared experiences as victims of white,
Christian colonialism can
only fortify our strength in building a new
multi-racial reality in
the U.S. and the world.
